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Genesis 42:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. "

Genesis 42:4

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2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

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From This Chapter

Genesis 42:1

"Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look"

Genesis 42:2

"And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die."

Genesis 42:3

"And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt."

Genesis 42:5

"And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan."

Genesis 42:6

"And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth."

Genesis 42:7

"And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food."
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